The Brother you have has appr. 70 built in embroidery designs. You can use them as is. The machine also has a USB port, so you can download from the computer to the machine. The Brother machines have the PES system . There are a lot of free designs on the internet, so you can start with those. They are not all equal, but just type in free embroidery designs and see what you like. When you download, you have to unzip the files, (if they are zipped) The machine does not recognize zipped files, at least mine does not. Have fun and happy embroidering.